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user3197881

Reputation: 51

Dockerizing a Windows Service Docker for Windows

I have a existing Windows Service which I want to move to docker container in windows. I'm new to this. If somebody can help me how to create docker image to move windows service into docker, it would be helpful.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3494

Answers (2)

QA Collective
QA Collective

Reputation: 2439

Converting an existing windows servie to run in a docker container is fairly easy. You will need to get the installutil.exe mentioned in this script before it will work. It is part of the .NET framework. The last 9 lines of code here are not needed if your service doesn't log to the Event Viewer.

# escape=\

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/aspnet:4.7.2-windowsservercore-1709

SHELL ["powershell", "-Command", "$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'; $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue';"]

COPY ["MyWindowsServiceName/bin/Release/", "/Service/"]

WORKDIR "C:/Service/"

RUN "C:/Service/InstallUtil.exe" /LogToConsole=true /ShowCallStack MyWindowsServiceName.exe; \
    Set-Service -Name "\"MyWindowsServiceName\"" -StartupType Automatic; \
    Set-ItemProperty "\"Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MyWindowsServiceName\"" -Name AllowRemoteConnection -Value 1

ENTRYPOINT ["powershell"]
CMD Start-Service \""MyWindowsServiceName\""; \
    Get-EventLog -LogName System -After (Get-Date).AddHours(-1) | Format-List ;\
    $idx = (get-eventlog -LogName System -Newest 1).Index; \
    while ($true) \
    {; \
    start-sleep -Seconds 1; \
    $idx2  = (Get-EventLog -LogName System -newest 1).index; \
    get-eventlog -logname system -newest ($idx2 - $idx) |  sort index | Format-List; \
    $idx = $idx2; \
    }

NOTE: The name of a windows service may be different to its executable name. That is, 'MyWindowsServiceName.exe' could have a service name of 'My Windows Service Name' or 'Fred', you need to know both.

Upvotes: 1

lishniy
lishniy

Reputation: 51

First, download wait-service script You need to write dockerfile like this

FROM microsoft/windowsservercore
SHELL ["powershell", "-Command", "$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'; $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue';"]
WORKDIR /
COPY Wait-Service.ps1 service.exe ./
RUN install_you_service
CMD c:\Wait-Service.ps1 -ServiceName 'service' -AllowServiceRestart

then open powershel and folder with you dockerfile and run

docker build .

Upvotes: 5

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